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Dorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city to study architecture. After winning a competition, she is a success, and meets Monty Rhodes, the son of aristocratic parents. Despite his parents' objections, Monty and Dorothy marry, but Mrs. Rhodes continually humiliates Dorothy for her lack of breeding. When she finally succeeds in driving the heartbroken Dorothy back to her own family, Monty realizes his mistake, and follows her to the country, where he finds happiness with his wife and their poor relations.
Dorothy Perkins, the eldest daughter of a simple, wholesome country family, leaves for the big city to study architecture. After winning a competition, she is a success, and meets Monty Rhodes, the son of aristocratic parents. Despite his parents' objections, Monty and Dorothy marry, but Mrs. Rhodes continually humiliates Dorothy for her lack of breeding. When she finally succeeds in driving the heartbroken Dorothy back to her own family, Monty realizes his mistake, and follows her to the country, where he finds happiness with his wife and their poor relations.
The film explores the personal dilemma of a woman's upward mobility being threatened by her impoverished family, focusing on individual choices and resilience rather than advocating for systemic change or promoting a specific political ideology.
The movie features traditional casting, consistent with films of its era, without explicit diversity or intentional race/gender swaps of roles. Its narrative does not critique traditional identities, maintaining a neutral or positive framing.
The 1927 silent film 'Poor Relations' centers on a woman navigating class distinctions within her marriage. There are no discernible LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes present in the film's storyline or character arcs, resulting in a net impact of N/A.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This 1919 silent film is not an adaptation of a widely known source material with pre-established characters whose genders were altered. The characters appear to be original to the story or its immediate source, with no indication of a gender swap from prior canonical or historical portrayals.
The 1919 film "Poor Relations" is an adaptation of a story by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The characters, implicitly understood as white within the context of early 20th-century American literature and film, were portrayed by white actors. There is no evidence of any character being depicted as a different race than established or implied by the source material.